6. CINNTRI8. 



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Cinnyris lucidus, Less. Traite cFOrn. i. p. 295 (1831); Pucheran, 



Mev. et Mar/. Zool. 1853, p. 486; Haiti. J.f. O. 1855, p. 423. 

 Nectarinia nitida, Nordm. in Enn. JRcise urn d. Erde, Atlas, p. G (1885). 

 ? Nectarima coccinigaster, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 98 (1847). 

 Nectarinia spleudens, Schleg. Handl. Dierk. p. 236 (1857). 



Adult male. This species is remarkable for its extremely long 

 upper tail-coverts, the longest of which extend almost as far as the 

 tip of the tail. Head all round, throat, and fore neck metallic purplish 

 violet ; hind neck and sides of neck bluish green in position B, purple 

 in C ; mantle and back brilliant golden green or bluish green respec- 

 tively ; chest and upper breast mottled with crimson-red and with 

 metallic violet ; pectoral tufts very pale yellow ; greater pari; of 

 breast and rest of underparts deep black ; edge of wing and under 

 tail-coverts metallic, varying from green to violet. 



Adult ft'uiale. Pale olive-brown above ; tail dark brown, with 

 narrow pale tips ; underparts yellow ; feathers of chest and flanks 

 with pnlc brownish centres, which give these parts a slightly mottled 

 appearance ; throat and under wing-coverts pale yellow. 



Younr/ males aro like the females, but have the throat and fore 

 neck dull blackish. 



Immnture males have the throat and fore neck metallic purple ; the 

 crown is the last to assume the metallic plumage. 



cJ . Culmen 1-0 inch, wing 2-7-2-9, taU 1"7, tarsus 0-7. 



$. „ 0-95 „ „ 2-55-2-6, „ 1-5, „ 0-65. 



Hah. West Africa. 



a, h. Ad. iu spirit. 



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ing). 

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sk. 

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ad. sk. 

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West Africa. 



Senegal. 



Senegal. 



Senegal, Aug. 1870. 



Bissao. 



Bissao. 



Cape Verd {Laf/laize). 

 Sierra Leone (Fraser). 

 SieiTa Leone. 

 Abrobonko, Fantee, Jan. 



14, 1871 (Uss/ier). 

 Fantee {Aubinn), 

 Fantee. 



Cape Coast, March 20, 



1871 (Uss/ier). 

 Denkera, Feb. 1872 (BHs- 



sett). 

 Elmina, April 1874 {BUs- 



sctt). 

 Accra (Smith). 

 Ashantee. 



River Volta ( Ussher). 



Abeokuta. 



Gaboon {Du Chailhi), 



Governor Ussher [P.]. 



Purchased. 



M. Verreaux. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 L. Fraser, Esq. [C.]. 

 R. B. Shai-pe, Esq. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



R. B. Sharae, Esq. 

 J. Gould, Esq. 



R. B. Shai-i^e, Esq. 

 F. Nicholson, Esq. [P.]. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

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